Emil. Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak; 'Tis proper I obey him, but not now: Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home. I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your niece, Gra. Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead; And fall to reprobation. Oth. "Tis pitiful; but yet Iago knows, With that recognisance and pledge of love Emil. O heaven! O heavenly powers! Tago. Come, hold your peace. Emil. 'Twill out, 'twill out :-I peace! No, I will speak as liberal as the air;" Let heaven, and men, and devils, let them all, I will not. [IAGO offers to stab his wife. Gra. Your sword upon a woman? Fie! Emil. O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of I found by fortune, and did give my husband, For often with a solemn earnestness More than, indeed, belong'd to such a trifle He begg'd of me to steal it. She give it Cassio! Emil. I do not-I do not, gentlemen: O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool Oth. [IAGO stabs EMILIA, then runs out. But what serve for the thunder ?-Precious villain ! Mon. 'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon, Come, guard the door without; let him not pass, [Exeunt MONTANO and GRATIANO. Oth. I am not valiant neither, Emil. What did thy song bode, lady? [Dies. Oth. I have another weapon in this chamber; It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper: 7O, here it is.-Uncle, I must come forth. Gra. [Within.] If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear; Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer. Oth. Look in upon me then, and speak with me, Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee. Re-enter GRATIANO. Behold, I have a weapon: Gra. What is the matter? A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day, O cursed, cursed slave !-Whip me, ye devils, Enter LODOVICO, MONTANO, CASSIO, carried in a chair, and Officers, with Iago, prisoner. Lod. Where is this rash and most unfortunate man? Oth. That's he that was Othello; here I am. Lod. Where is that viper? bring the villain forth. Oth. I look down towards his feet;-but that's a fable: If that thou be'st a devil I cannot kill thee. Lod. Wrench his sword from him. [Wounds IAGO. I bleed, sir; but not kill'd. Oth. I am not sorry neither: I'd have thee live ; For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die. Lod. O thou Othello, that wert once so good, Fall'n in the practice of a cursed slave, What shall be said to thee? Oth. Why, anything: An honourable murderer, if you will; For nought I did in hate, but all in honour. Lod. This wretch hath part confess'd his villany: Did you and he consent in Cassio's death? Oth. Ay. Cas. Dear general, I never gave you cause. Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil, Iago. Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word. Lod. What, not to pray? Gra. Oth. Well, thou dost best. Torments will ope your lips. Lod. Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n, And here another: the one of them imports By Roderigo. Oth. O villain ! Cas. Most heathenish and most gross! Lod. Now here's another discontented paper, Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems, Roderigo meant to have sent this villain ; But that, belike, Iago in the interim Came in and satisfied him. Oth. O thou pernicious caitiff!— How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief That was my wife's ? Cas. I found it in my chamber; And he himself confess'd, but even now, Oth. O fool! fool! fool! Iago set him on. Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us; That can torment him much, and hold him long, Oth. Soft you; a word or two before you go. When you Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand, Richer than all his tribe ;9 of one, whose subdu'd eyes, |